Micrographia Illuftrata : 
OR THE 
MICROSCOPE 
EXPLAINED, 
IN SEVERAL NEW INVENTIONS, 
Particularly of a New VARIABLE MICROSCOPE 
for Examining all Sorts of Minute Objects; 
AND ALSO OF A 
New CAMERA OBSCURA MICROSCOPE, 
Defigned for Drawing all Minute Objects, either by the Light 
of the Sun, or by a Lamp in Winter Evenings, to great 
Perfedlion j 
WITH 
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A Description of all the other Microfcopes now in Ufe. 
LIKEWISE 
A NATURAL HISTORY of Aerial, Ter¬ 
restrial, and Aquatic Animals, &c. 
Confidered as Microfcopic Qbjedts. 
By GEORGE ADAMS, 
Mathematical Inftrument - Maker to His Majesty. 
THE FOURTH EDITION. 
Illuftrated with Seventy-two Copper Plates, containing 560 
Delineations of various Microfcopic Objedts. 
LONDON: 
Printed for the Author, and fold by him at No. 6 o, in 
Fleet-Street, and by ail Bookfellers in Town and Country. 
M.DCC.LXXI.' 
